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a SIR WALTER SCOTT *T. 43
of one of the Hcattored "vessels of the Spanish Armada.
The ballad beglnn : —
»** Why gallops tlin |»l£wy with Lwly Duimnt t*
Who driven awity Turnbwrry'ii kit*** frww thu uiion f Go toll it in Currtak, «*nt 141 it It* Kylw — Although th« prowl I )««« art! now imwun^ Uw On itiif* tttityfitt <!h*ww |
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Old FJiinww <Io Aftjturt htut tAktitt It* li;inil
To wiiwl up thuit Uviut wrt» Uw>y wit* t«
Scott Iiutmidiatidy wrotn t4> tlw «ulhor, lugging to be
included in IUH Tint of 8iib»arilH*r« for a it<»%«»n oopum, axid suggOBting at tho »amn tiwo a vorbal alto.ruiiou in one
of the stanssan of thin ballot!* Mr. Train ac^knowlodged
Ms letter with gratttmU^ mul tlta little bottle readied him just an ho wan about to ombark in the Hghthoune yacht. He took It with him on hi» voyage, an<l, <m rotumbg home again, wrote ta Mr, Traint expressing tho gratifi- cation he had roeeiwd from wwmil of hm in*^trk^al pioaea$ but still mare from hi» noten, and rcHjueHtliig him, as he seemed to be <mthumattiio about trsuHttotm anil legends, to eommtiiucmte any matters of that <wli*r eonneebnl with Galloway which ho might not huuneif think of turning to account; u£or»" aaitl Soott^ u nothing iitterentii me so much as local anoodotett; and, m tlw uppli^itumB for charity tiaually conclude, the umallaat donation will bo thankfully accepted.**
Mr. Train, in a little narrative with whieli he has
favored me* says, that lor nomo jmm tiefcire thiH time he had been engagad» ia aUtanco with ft frumd of his, Mr. Donaiston, in collecting mtitorifiltf for a Ilwtory of Galloway; they had circulated lirts of queriei among the clergy and parish sohoolmaitOTft, and had UIUH, and by their owm personal ro«oarchoAt actcumulatcMl $tn groat variety of tho most excellent iiiaterialii for tlmt purpose ;" "but tibat, from the hour of his cowaspondeiwe with Wal- ter Scott, hi "imouttced ©wry idea of authortfiiip for ^ Tbt Hull of Caifcyft* |
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